по душам

• ПО ДУШАМ (ПО ДУШЕ obs) поговорить, побеседовать с кем; разговор, беседа и т.п.

[PrepP; these forms only; adv or nonagreeing modif]

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⇒ (to talk with s.o.) frankly, candidly, freely, without hiding anything:

- поговорить{{}}по душам ≈ have a heart-to-heart (an intimate) talk (with s.o.);

- have a heart-to-heart (with s.o.);

- talk (speak) to s.o. heart to heart;

|| разговор{{}}по душам ≈ a heart-to-heart (talk);

- a candid conversation (talk).

     ♦ Времени до отхода поезда было предостаточно, и они славно посидели, и выпили, и потолковали по душам на прощание (Айтматов 2). There had been plenty of time before the train left, and they had sat there enjoying a drink and having a heart-to-heart talk before they parted (2a).

     ♦ Был... ещё один человек, с которым она могла поговорить по душам, - Степан Андреянович (Абрамов 1) There was one other person she could speak with heart to heart: Stepan Andreyanovich (1a).